Indicating means



Nov. 21, 1933- P. A. WOOSTER ET AL 1,935,970

'INDICATING MEANS Filed Oct. 19, 1931 llh ll llm l/Y VENTOI? JOHN l3- WOUSTEE.

/ THE/l? #TTORNEK PHILIP A. WOOSTEI'E.

Patented Nov. 21, 1933 INDIOATING MEANS Philip A. Woo ster and John B. Wooster, sanf Francisco, Calif.

Application October'19, 1931. Serial No. 569,746

4 Claims. (Cl. 116-414) Our invention relates" to improvements in 3 with indicia, preferably, in the form of a. d'iindicia for indicating the remaining quantity of agonally arranged bar 4, which may be sewed, undispensed commodity wi thin a dispensing' cabiprinted, woven,or otherwise attached or mounted net, and particularly of the continuous type of directly upon said towel 3 or the commodity being 5 dispensed commodity, such as a continuous towel dispensed, so that the relative position of the being dispensed from a towel cabinet, wherein exposed portion of the bar 4 will serve to indiindicia, applied directly upon the commodity Gate to operators, or persons employed to replen I being dispensed, indicates, by its relative position, is'n said cabinet'l, the undispensed quantity of r the quantity of undispensed commodity remainthe towel 3 or other commodity, remaining withl 0 ing within said cabinet. 7 in saidcabinet. p 7 v The primary object of the present invention is The present m od o pp y n towels 3' for to provide a new and improved indicating means, this established type of dispensing cabinet 1 is or indicia, for indicating the remaining or undisto so position the fastening mechanism, not pensed quantity of a commodity being dispensed. shown, that the towels are always placed with the 15 Another object of the present invention is to same side outwardly. Thus, in operation, when provide new and improved indicia of the charhe re easing ec anis Within the cabinet 1 is acter set forth and for the purpose described, arreleased to dispense a predetermined portion or ranged to indicate the remaining quantity of unlength of towel only the operator or user pulls dispensed commodity within a dispensing cabinet upon the exposed portion of the said towel 3.

2O or device, whereby said quantity may be ascer- AS the towel 3 iS thus dispensed it is ObViOllS tained without opening said cabinet, for that the relative position of the diagonal bar 4 replenishment. g I v will be altered as the supply of continuous towel A further cbject'ig t pro id n d imis used, and therefore, the bar or indicia 4 being proved indicia of the-character set forth, to indidiagonal, relative p i of the aid ndicia 25 cate to users of the commoditmthat the supply bar! p the exposed portion o t e towel'SO has become exhausted, thereby preventing pos- 3 will be altered, and thereby such relative posi- Sible damage t a dispensing gb ti d tion of said indicia will readily indicate to an efforts to secure further supply of said oommod- Operator, 1 p rson employed to rep s he ity, on the part of an operator. same, the remaining or undispensed quantity of 0 We accomplish these and other objects by the commodity within the cabinet.

means of the improved device disclosed in the For instance, when the supply is approximately 1 drawing forming a part of the present app1icaonly half used the bar or indicia 4 will be relation wherein like characters of reference are used tively positioned upon the exposed or dispensed to designate similar parts throughout the specifiportion of the towel as disclosed in full lines in 35 cation and drawing, and in which-- Fig. 1 of the drawing. When the supply has Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one form of a become exhausted, the bar or indicia 4 will be dispensing device, disclosing our device applied exp s d O assume the relative position isclosed thereto; in dotted lines in said Fig. 1.,

Fig. 2 is a broken elevation of one form of By the provisionof this novel feature, possible commodity removed from the dispensing device injury to the towel, or the dispensing mechanism,

and disclosing one form of indicia applied thereor the cabinet itself, may be prevented as further t d g efforts on the part of an operator to secure fur.-

Fig. 3 is a broken view of a portion of one form ther commodity from an exhausted dispensing del of commodity disclosing a modified form ofinvice will be, prevented by indicating to said operdicia applied thereto. ator that said supply has become exhausted. 00

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 is used Also, a saving of time will be accomplished by to designate, in general, one type of a dispensing persons employed to replenish the commodity, as device comprising the well known and established the relative position of the indicia will indicate continuous towel cabinet from which, by pushing the quantity of the remaining undispensed por- 50 a button 2 thereon, mechanism, not shown, is tion of said commodity within the cabinet, or its operated which intermittently releases predecomplete exhaustion, without requiring the opertermined portions of a continuous, towel 3 ation of opening said cabinet. mounted within and having portions dispensed Further, the indicia herein described, will elimexteriorly of said cabinet 1. inate the necessity for the provision of expensive In our invention, we have provided the towel a d complicated mec anism 0W employed for the same purpose, whereby a material saving in the expense of supplying or providing suitable indicia may be effected.

In Fig. 3 we have disclosed a slight modification of the form of indicia as disclosed at 6 in said Fig. 3, wherein the indicia may take the form of a direct announcement to inform uninitiated operators, or those of subnormal comprehension, that the supply of the commodity being dispensed has become exhausted.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a continuous towel dispensing cabinet, of a continuous towel mounted within said cabinet and extending exteriorly thereof and provided with a diagonally positioned index whereby the quantity of towel to be dispensed and remaining within said cabinet may be indicated by the position of the said diagonally positioned index visible exteriorly of said cabinet. 1

2. The combination with a continuous towel dispensing cabinet, of a continuous towel mounted therein and having a portion thereof presented exteriorly of said cabinet, said towel having thereon a diagonally positioned index whereby the quantity of undispensed portion of said towel may be indicated by the position of the said index upon the exteriorly presented portion of said towel.

3. The combination with a towel dispensing cabinet of the type described having storage and dispensing mechanism and a long strip of toweling arranged in said cabinet and having a visible looped portion depending therefrom, said mechanism permitting the towel to be advanced a predetermined distance upon each actuation, and a -marker formed on said towel and visible on the looped portion and extending lengthwise thereon of the toweling throughout its entire length from a point adjacent one edge to a point adjacent the opposite edge whereby an attendant upon ascertaining the position of the marker with relation to either edge may determine the approximate length of towel still to be advanced.

4. The combination with a towel dispensing cabinet of the type described having storage and dispensing mechanism and a long strip of toweling arranged in said cabinet and having a visible looped portion depending therefrom, said mechanism permitting the towel to be advanced a predetermined distance upon each actuation, and a marker on the towel which is at all times visible on the depending loop of the towel whereby the amount of clean towel remaining in the machine is indicated, said marker consisting of a line formed by stitching and extending the entire length of the toweling diagonally thereof.

PHILIP A. WOOSTER.

JOHN B. WOOSTER.

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